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...There is ... no doubt universal condemnation of a flier who, for commercial exploitation, took two children on a flight of this sort. . . . The flight was undertaken as a builder-up for radio broadcasts, in which the whole family were to take part-undoubtedly a beguiling idea from the advertising standpoint."-New York World-Telegram...
...brought along as his counsel blue-eyed, white-haired John J. Curtin, Brooklyn attorney, close friend of Alfred Emanuel Smith. "Let's throw away the law books. Let's forget there ever was a written law. Let's tackle this from a human fair-minded standpoint," exclaimed Counsel Curtin, and proceeded immediately to try to tangle the Walker defense in a mass of legal technicalities. What Counsel Curtin was vainly driving at was the right to cross-examine the Mayor...
Dividends. Wrote Carlton A. Shively, financial editor of the New York Sun last week: "From a speculative standpoint, the market probably would do better if all dividends were omitted at once. Worrying about the tooth is worse than the pulling...
According to my best information, this announcement should have caused no excitement from a Yale standpoint, because six of the previous eight winners were graduates of the Cornell University College of Architecture, and as far as I have been informed. Yale claims no particular distinction in the field of landscape architecture. Your article creates an impression that Yale holds the same monopoly in the field of landscape architecture, as it deservedly does in the Fine Arts...
This is very different from the pettiness of most graduate courses and is, in my opinion, vastly more important from the standpoint of general culture than a consideration of the poets in relation to their time which can be obtained in any elementary work on the romantic movement...